The "Great Debates in History" is a historical think tank that examines timeless debates waged by historians and the general populace when revisiting the past. The aim of this wiki is to foster historical thinking and entertain multiple perspectives in considering the human past. This site is open to any topic of discussion, so long as it is historical in nature and thought provoking. You might ask why we bother studying the past? Why study history if it is long since passed? Well to answer you in a word, in the spirit of Cicero, we must study the past, for "not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live forever as a child."
The "Great Debates in History" is a historical think tank that examines timeless debates waged by historians and the general populace when revisiting the past. The aim of this wiki is to foster historical thinking and entertain multiple perspectives in considering the human past. This site is open to any topic of discussion, so long as it is historical in nature and thought provoking. You might ask why we bother studying the past? Why study history if it is long since passed? Well to answer you in a word, in the spirit of Cicero, we must study the past, for "not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live forever as a child."
Why history matters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtO99sCzVMY